Judge supports rejecting late votes

Peter K. peterk at enteract.com
Sat Nov 18 12:09:40 PST 2000


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>counties, I doubt recounting the rest of the state will yield a win for
>Bush. And after all of Bush's rhetoric of ending the election quickly, a
>lot of people will probably go with the line that he had a chance to ask
for
>recounts initially and turned it down, then had Gore offer a statewide
>recount deal and rejected it, so three strikes and he's out.
>
>We'll see and Gore still has to get enough votes out of the recounts, but
>given the low number of absentee ballots getting counted, it is actually
>looking like the smart money is now on Gore to be the next President.
>
>Which means I may be paying up to Seth soon.
>
>-- Nathan Newman

The biggest sign that your analysis is correct is that the Bush campaign is upping the rhetoric and tension by saying that the Democrats are literally stealing the election via their Democratic controlled election boards. Moreover the Republicans are saying the Democrats are disenfranchising - by diabolical means - the men and women of the armed services who are stationed overseas.

If the U.S. Supreme Court doesn't involve itself, I wonder if the Congress will toss its hat in the ring.



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